...Similarly with all this "exploded" malarky. I think if something with that much chemical energy were to explode in my trousers pocket, the first thing going through my mind would be "Fuck! Where are my balls? And leg?" if I wasn't actually unconscious or dead, that is. An enthusiastic chemical fire and an explosion are rather different things.
Your post is correct regarding this issue being dealt with by Samsung - I should know. I got a text message about the recall on my Note 7 on the 4th, about 4 hours before it decided to go into the boot loop of death anyway, so it's been sitting neatly packed away in the box with all the gubbins it came with. (Had it not done that I'd have been using it up until I called them to confirm this recall was an absolute and not a "well, you should be okay" situation.) I had that chat with Samsung as per the message request, they've since called me back for some device specific details and I'll be chatting with the people at the shop I got it from on Monday (19th) to see about the replacement.
Then the fun begins on the boot loop issue - if it happens again there will be... words. If I'm willing to pay £700 for a device I expect the fucking thing to work as advertised.
A simple solution for this on laptops - a pair of small sliders, one a physical switch which cuts the mic line, the other a flag covering the camera lens (rear cameras on handheld devices are for someone else to figure out). Both would be near to the front bezel of the device so a small window could show a red mic symbol when the mic switch is moved to on, a green mic with a line shows when switched to off. For the camera, the green panel - off - would be solid and the red - on - would have a hole in it for the lens. You could still make the camera switch a camera power killer if so desired (might also be that rear camera solution for other devices?).
The only problems I see are companies wanting to incorporate this and how small and idiot proof you could make the additions. This is simply an engineering solution with easy user access - no software required, no menu hunting, so no issues with "does it really cut out?"
On the one hand we have bible thumpers shoving bullshit at us, on the other hand "wake up sheeple - we all live in the Matrix!!!" Anyone wanna cook up more fairy stories about why we exist? We're here (and we're fucking up the planet we live on - we need to stop doing that as it's the only home we've got at the moment), the universe is before us and that's all that really matters.
Even MS would have to admit that 640x480 is a useless resolution for AR - how are they supposed to force you to view all their advertising if you can't make sense of it due to pixelation?
Considering how dry beanpoppa's response was, you sound like you wrote your comment after sitting on a nest of fire ants. He was right - you don't have to use the scanner (or the fingerprint reader, or pattern lock, etc) and you could use the fallback of a password anyway. The comment he replied to didn't come across as a joke in any way so you losing it complaining about someone else losing it was not your smartest move.
Seems a few people aren't taking into account that whilst they might be at a level of computer savvy from average to corporate IT pro, many people aren't. Those people are the ones who will believe the bullshit they're sold by TV/newspaper advertising & brainless salesdroids talking about operating systems that are the best ever and self-repairing. Remember Apple's "It just works"? Play that across the board for all sorts of hardware.
For some it'll be - as you rightly state - "it just broke" and they'll be stuffed. They won't have known that the thing they've been doing home accounts/online retail therapy/video calls to the kids/grandkids is something that can fail anytime (and often just outside of support or warranty time). People around here think that *everyone* who so much as looks at a computer, be it desktop, laptop or tablet (or even a smartphone) should somehow understand that backups need to be made to an external device and also know how to set up said device and schedule those backups. Meanwhile, back in the real world...
This is not about having a backup regime though, is it? This is about an unwanted and forced update which has locked the owner of a computer out of his system. There's likely going to be a lot of people who don't have backups, especially those who believe the old MS hype that Windows can fix itself, etc, etc. I don't think you'd get much mileage telling them it's their own fault for not having backups.
Aah, I see - thanks for the info. If cable companies now own the base copper then they can be as assholy as they want. Much suck. I won't know enough of the history of US telcos & scum like Comcast to get a better picture without digging into Google, so I might have a good gander later. Over here we went straight from the origins of the General Post Office to splitting the telcoms off as BT, which then got sold by the government to make a fast buck. A big mistake only now being slowly turned around but even then it seems we have far better infrastructure than America does. Still not a patch on Japan & Korea or any place that starts afresh, but still.
Why would they each have to dig the streets up? Isn't the telephone infrastructure there already? In the UK, BT owns the copper in the ground and everybody competing in the pool coughs up a fair rental for using that copper, including us customers. On copper alone and with a distance of around 3 miles from the exchange we managed an easy 6+/2+ Mbit. Recently we started seeing fiber to cabinet which lowered costs in general so now I get phone, TV & 50+/14+ Mbit for about £45 a month (including calls but still paying BT about £18 monthly line rental for the "last mile" of copper). I've recently read that my ISP is starting trials of fiber to home in select locations and will likely see speeds of 900Mbit or more (seems to be cheaper too). BT can either like it or lump it as that looks like it cuts out the line rental portion completely. At that point they might as well start pulling out the copper and recycling it.
Then again, although some of our politicians are fairly corruptible it seems that none are overtly in a corporate hip pocket as many in the US appear to be, so we get better competition and less monopolisation. Although services vary quite a bit, in general, things are pretty damn good and nobody is digging up the neighbourhood.
Nice. I don't wear a belt otherwise I might have gone that route myself. My current one is a very slim but solid 2-part plastic job with a ribbed surface for grip. (Ooer!) One part is good enough to stay on the back of the phone (Galaxy Note II) with cutouts for speaker & camera on the back, volume & power either side & plenty of space for 'phones, USB & S-Pen top & bottom and also has slightly raised edges to keep the screen from hitting ground if dropped on a flat surface. The other part has a ratchet rotating clip with a kickstand built in - can prop the phone up in landscape when inserted face out. Never had it pop off as the clip has a spring that would make a gin trap nervous. In the hand adds about 3mm width and nothing to length, mebbe about 1mm on depth, on the hip it's nigh undetectable with either a Bluetooth piece or a wired set with the cable running up under a T-shirt. I wear it 1 notch off vertical on the left hip and the phone is dead easy to pull or replace left handed (I'm a natural right) - draws almost like a pistol from a holster but without the corpses.
It has to be the cheapest, thinnest, lightest thing I've ever used but still affords good protection. Think I paid about £5 for it. Certainly beats the Krusell ones I used to use for Nokia & HTC phones years back. I just don't see the problem with using either a belt or clip type - can't figure why people have so much against them, and like you say - no issues at all with mis-dials or damage and I've had this phone two & a half years, some of that spent in a electrical engineering environment shunting heavy switchgear about.
Heh-heh. Nice one. Bloody first world problems, eh? I've been using belt clips since my first mobile phone and never had the issues mentioned by people. Maybe I'm just not treating my costly hardware like cheap disposable rubbish. If using a belt clip makes me such a horrible person as noted by someone else earlier, well - fuck! It's not like they're the kind of person I'd want to meet, is it?
They don't give you correct information in the KB description - just the generic security update or stability message - so unless you keep a list of the KB numbers it can be hard to spot the rogue ones. A little naughty, that. The way I dealt with it was by doing the following...
In a Command shell:
wusa/uninstall/kb:3068708/norestart , wusa/uninstall/kb:3022345/norestart , wusa/uninstall/kb:3075249/norestart , wusa/uninstall/kb:3080149/norestart
Services to check for & disable as required:
Diagnostic Policy Service, Diagnostic Service Host, Diagnostic System Host, Diagnostics Tracking Service
Addresses to block in the router:
vortex-win.data.microsoft.com & settings-win.data.microsoft.com
I dare them to show me bullshit ads or collect data now...
In the UK, 2.4GHz is pretty crowded - the band is allocated to WiFi, microwave ovens and DECT cordless phones. For some really strange reason signals in our house have never had any interfering interaction, we get blistering WiFi speeds even if cooking something *and* using the landline at the same time. (Internet speedtest @ 52Mbit on my phone via WiFi, same as Internet>Ethernet and ridiculous speeds on LANWiFi.) Neither of us in the house have experienced any symptoms of any kind in relation to this supposed phenomenon or, for that matter, any other. Well, except maybe we sometimes have to close the windows in summer if the wind blows our way from the local sewage treatment plant. I don't personally know anyone who would even consider WiFi as being other than a useful. I don't know anyone who jumps in front of cars for the insurance payout either.
Maybe the kid needs a tin-foil hat and his parents a lottery win.
So here in the UK it's a *bad* thing (and rightly so) for newspapers to hack people's phones for juicy shit to help sell their papers, but it's a *good* thing (and not rightly so) for the government to hack anybody's phones because they feel like it. One rule for the powerful and fuck everybody else.
I would love to hear about the UK government hacking US telecoms - wouldn't that be classed as an act of war by the US? How's that special relationship working out now, eh? (Special as in "bend over, I'm coming in dry, bitch!") If it becomes legal for one country, it becomes "legal" for all countries and bollocks to any government that complains about the free-for-all that ensues.
You might be able to brew an identical champion horse but, will it still be the same horse with a different training regime, rider, food, etc? Changes will occur from the very moment treatment and environment are in any way different from the original animal. Perfect cloning is the stuff of dreams and will stay that way as even differences between individual neurons in the brain will make changes to a given clone. You might even end up with a horse that won't race.
I can't think of a reason ANYONE would want the nuclear power generation industry to be less safe than it possibly could be, except where it meant that designs with potential flaws & faults would be blocked from sale to countries requiring lowest possible cost nuclear power. Blocking increased safety simply sounds like someone wants their income protected.
If current regulatory practices means that there are ways of getting round safety, then they MUST be rewritten and/or extended. Anything less I consider a dereliction of duty to the people who would live near nuclear plants.
"if someone says a curse word against my mother, he can expect a punch"
Yup - if we're talking about a real person. I whole-heartedly agree; if it was unwarranted or gratuitous I would fully expect to be seeing a few teeth on the floor. However, if someone get's antsy over a comment I make about their invisible imaginary friend they can fuck right off. I don't care which religion it is, someone handing out a beating or killing over it becomes less than human and shouldn't be breathing my air.
As the head of the western paedophiles and discrimination club he should watch *his* mouth, as should high ranking members of the eastern paedophiles and discrimination club. Surprising as they've shared so many of the same hobbies & interests that they should be at war over who's imaginary friend is better.
(Yes, I'm an atheist and proud to have *real* friends. Some of them are even sane.)
Been using a Note II for a couple of years and when out & about it hangs from a belt/waistband clip. Funny really - every phone I've had has been carried the same, never needed anything else to carry one.
I've noticed a disturbing trend over the last few months from commenters on various forums to first make a point opposing the previous comment then top it off with a personal dig. I foresee an interesting 2015 as people spend more time throwing insults, epithets and derision than actually making a point.
My point about not needing a pardon is that Snowden didn't give information to the enemy - he told the world. According to the way the intelligence & military communities are portrayed in the released documents that means *us*. All of us, be it communist, capitalist or just plain don't give a fuck. I don't consider myself an enemy and I'm pretty sure you aren't as you've done me no harm. The real enemy is the intelligence & military community. Remove them - and their paranoia and lust for secrecy & big shiny toys that go boom - from the scene (and the religious zealots, etc, etc) and the world might be a slightly better place.
What does he need a pardon for? He's done nothing to require one. What he needs is a big shiny medal - the sort that says "you done a good thing there, thank you" and a great big "anybody touches him is in a whole truckload of trouble" award.
True, but biology texts would be more interested in explaining the interactions with the human organism from various chemical means. Condoms don't quite have that kind of effect, being simply a barrier contraceptive.
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...Similarly with all this "exploded" malarky. I think if something with that much chemical energy were to explode in my trousers pocket, the first thing going through my mind would be "Fuck! Where are my balls? And leg?" if I wasn't actually unconscious or dead, that is. An enthusiastic chemical fire and an explosion are rather different things.
Your post is correct regarding this issue being dealt with by Samsung - I should know. I got a text message about the recall on my Note 7 on the 4th, about 4 hours before it decided to go into the boot loop of death anyway, so it's been sitting neatly packed away in the box with all the gubbins it came with. (Had it not done that I'd have been using it up until I called them to confirm this recall was an absolute and not a "well, you should be okay" situation.) I had that chat with Samsung as per the message request, they've since called me back for some device specific details and I'll be chatting with the people at the shop I got it from on Monday (19th) to see about the replacement.
Then the fun begins on the boot loop issue - if it happens again there will be ... words. If I'm willing to pay £700 for a device I expect the fucking thing to work as advertised.
A simple solution for this on laptops - a pair of small sliders, one a physical switch which cuts the mic line, the other a flag covering the camera lens (rear cameras on handheld devices are for someone else to figure out). Both would be near to the front bezel of the device so a small window could show a red mic symbol when the mic switch is moved to on, a green mic with a line shows when switched to off. For the camera, the green panel - off - would be solid and the red - on - would have a hole in it for the lens. You could still make the camera switch a camera power killer if so desired (might also be that rear camera solution for other devices?).
The only problems I see are companies wanting to incorporate this and how small and idiot proof you could make the additions. This is simply an engineering solution with easy user access - no software required, no menu hunting, so no issues with "does it really cut out?"
On the one hand we have bible thumpers shoving bullshit at us, on the other hand "wake up sheeple - we all live in the Matrix!!!" Anyone wanna cook up more fairy stories about why we exist? We're here (and we're fucking up the planet we live on - we need to stop doing that as it's the only home we've got at the moment), the universe is before us and that's all that really matters.
There was a time when windows update would give you a list of what was fixed. Now it seems to be a list of what was/will be broken.
Even MS would have to admit that 640x480 is a useless resolution for AR - how are they supposed to force you to view all their advertising if you can't make sense of it due to pixelation?
Considering how dry beanpoppa's response was, you sound like you wrote your comment after sitting on a nest of fire ants. He was right - you don't have to use the scanner (or the fingerprint reader, or pattern lock, etc) and you could use the fallback of a password anyway. The comment he replied to didn't come across as a joke in any way so you losing it complaining about someone else losing it was not your smartest move.
52 here and very much in agreement. I bet there's plenty older too.
Seems a few people aren't taking into account that whilst they might be at a level of computer savvy from average to corporate IT pro, many people aren't. Those people are the ones who will believe the bullshit they're sold by TV/newspaper advertising & brainless salesdroids talking about operating systems that are the best ever and self-repairing. Remember Apple's "It just works"? Play that across the board for all sorts of hardware.
For some it'll be - as you rightly state - "it just broke" and they'll be stuffed. They won't have known that the thing they've been doing home accounts/online retail therapy/video calls to the kids/grandkids is something that can fail anytime (and often just outside of support or warranty time). People around here think that *everyone* who so much as looks at a computer, be it desktop, laptop or tablet (or even a smartphone) should somehow understand that backups need to be made to an external device and also know how to set up said device and schedule those backups. Meanwhile, back in the real world...
This is not about having a backup regime though, is it? This is about an unwanted and forced update which has locked the owner of a computer out of his system. There's likely going to be a lot of people who don't have backups, especially those who believe the old MS hype that Windows can fix itself, etc, etc. I don't think you'd get much mileage telling them it's their own fault for not having backups.
The stuff already there does but there's a lot of incoming dust that'll happily coat anything it lands on. That's a really big problem alright!
Aah, I see - thanks for the info. If cable companies now own the base copper then they can be as assholy as they want. Much suck. I won't know enough of the history of US telcos & scum like Comcast to get a better picture without digging into Google, so I might have a good gander later. Over here we went straight from the origins of the General Post Office to splitting the telcoms off as BT, which then got sold by the government to make a fast buck. A big mistake only now being slowly turned around but even then it seems we have far better infrastructure than America does. Still not a patch on Japan & Korea or any place that starts afresh, but still.
Why would they each have to dig the streets up? Isn't the telephone infrastructure there already? In the UK, BT owns the copper in the ground and everybody competing in the pool coughs up a fair rental for using that copper, including us customers. On copper alone and with a distance of around 3 miles from the exchange we managed an easy 6+/2+ Mbit. Recently we started seeing fiber to cabinet which lowered costs in general so now I get phone, TV & 50+/14+ Mbit for about £45 a month (including calls but still paying BT about £18 monthly line rental for the "last mile" of copper). I've recently read that my ISP is starting trials of fiber to home in select locations and will likely see speeds of 900Mbit or more (seems to be cheaper too). BT can either like it or lump it as that looks like it cuts out the line rental portion completely. At that point they might as well start pulling out the copper and recycling it.
Then again, although some of our politicians are fairly corruptible it seems that none are overtly in a corporate hip pocket as many in the US appear to be, so we get better competition and less monopolisation. Although services vary quite a bit, in general, things are pretty damn good and nobody is digging up the neighbourhood.
Nice. I don't wear a belt otherwise I might have gone that route myself. My current one is a very slim but solid 2-part plastic job with a ribbed surface for grip. (Ooer!) One part is good enough to stay on the back of the phone (Galaxy Note II) with cutouts for speaker & camera on the back, volume & power either side & plenty of space for 'phones, USB & S-Pen top & bottom and also has slightly raised edges to keep the screen from hitting ground if dropped on a flat surface. The other part has a ratchet rotating clip with a kickstand built in - can prop the phone up in landscape when inserted face out. Never had it pop off as the clip has a spring that would make a gin trap nervous. In the hand adds about 3mm width and nothing to length, mebbe about 1mm on depth, on the hip it's nigh undetectable with either a Bluetooth piece or a wired set with the cable running up under a T-shirt. I wear it 1 notch off vertical on the left hip and the phone is dead easy to pull or replace left handed (I'm a natural right) - draws almost like a pistol from a holster but without the corpses.
It has to be the cheapest, thinnest, lightest thing I've ever used but still affords good protection. Think I paid about £5 for it. Certainly beats the Krusell ones I used to use for Nokia & HTC phones years back. I just don't see the problem with using either a belt or clip type - can't figure why people have so much against them, and like you say - no issues at all with mis-dials or damage and I've had this phone two & a half years, some of that spent in a electrical engineering environment shunting heavy switchgear about.
Heh-heh. Nice one. Bloody first world problems, eh? I've been using belt clips since my first mobile phone and never had the issues mentioned by people. Maybe I'm just not treating my costly hardware like cheap disposable rubbish. If using a belt clip makes me such a horrible person as noted by someone else earlier, well - fuck! It's not like they're the kind of person I'd want to meet, is it?
They don't give you correct information in the KB description - just the generic security update or stability message - so unless you keep a list of the KB numbers it can be hard to spot the rogue ones. A little naughty, that. The way I dealt with it was by doing the following...
In a Command shell: /uninstall /kb:3068708 /norestart , wusa /uninstall /kb:3022345 /norestart , wusa /uninstall /kb:3075249 /norestart , wusa /uninstall /kb:3080149 /norestart
wusa
Services to check for & disable as required:
Diagnostic Policy Service, Diagnostic Service Host, Diagnostic System Host, Diagnostics Tracking Service
Addresses to block in the router:
vortex-win.data.microsoft.com & settings-win.data.microsoft.com
I dare them to show me bullshit ads or collect data now...
In the UK, 2.4GHz is pretty crowded - the band is allocated to WiFi, microwave ovens and DECT cordless phones. For some really strange reason signals in our house have never had any interfering interaction, we get blistering WiFi speeds even if cooking something *and* using the landline at the same time. (Internet speedtest @ 52Mbit on my phone via WiFi, same as Internet>Ethernet and ridiculous speeds on LANWiFi.) Neither of us in the house have experienced any symptoms of any kind in relation to this supposed phenomenon or, for that matter, any other. Well, except maybe we sometimes have to close the windows in summer if the wind blows our way from the local sewage treatment plant. I don't personally know anyone who would even consider WiFi as being other than a useful. I don't know anyone who jumps in front of cars for the insurance payout either.
Maybe the kid needs a tin-foil hat and his parents a lottery win.
So here in the UK it's a *bad* thing (and rightly so) for newspapers to hack people's phones for juicy shit to help sell their papers, but it's a *good* thing (and not rightly so) for the government to hack anybody's phones because they feel like it. One rule for the powerful and fuck everybody else.
I would love to hear about the UK government hacking US telecoms - wouldn't that be classed as an act of war by the US? How's that special relationship working out now, eh? (Special as in "bend over, I'm coming in dry, bitch!") If it becomes legal for one country, it becomes "legal" for all countries and bollocks to any government that complains about the free-for-all that ensues.
You might be able to brew an identical champion horse but, will it still be the same horse with a different training regime, rider, food, etc? Changes will occur from the very moment treatment and environment are in any way different from the original animal. Perfect cloning is the stuff of dreams and will stay that way as even differences between individual neurons in the brain will make changes to a given clone. You might even end up with a horse that won't race.
I can't think of a reason ANYONE would want the nuclear power generation industry to be less safe than it possibly could be, except where it meant that designs with potential flaws & faults would be blocked from sale to countries requiring lowest possible cost nuclear power. Blocking increased safety simply sounds like someone wants their income protected.
If current regulatory practices means that there are ways of getting round safety, then they MUST be rewritten and/or extended. Anything less I consider a dereliction of duty to the people who would live near nuclear plants.
"if someone says a curse word against my mother, he can expect a punch"
Yup - if we're talking about a real person. I whole-heartedly agree; if it was unwarranted or gratuitous I would fully expect to be seeing a few teeth on the floor. However, if someone get's antsy over a comment I make about their invisible imaginary friend they can fuck right off. I don't care which religion it is, someone handing out a beating or killing over it becomes less than human and shouldn't be breathing my air.
As the head of the western paedophiles and discrimination club he should watch *his* mouth, as should high ranking members of the eastern paedophiles and discrimination club. Surprising as they've shared so many of the same hobbies & interests that they should be at war over who's imaginary friend is better.
(Yes, I'm an atheist and proud to have *real* friends. Some of them are even sane.)
Necklacing a camera sounds waaay better than what usually ends up wearing a burning tyre
Been using a Note II for a couple of years and when out & about it hangs from a belt/waistband clip. Funny really - every phone I've had has been carried the same, never needed anything else to carry one.
I've noticed a disturbing trend over the last few months from commenters on various forums to first make a point opposing the previous comment then top it off with a personal dig. I foresee an interesting 2015 as people spend more time throwing insults, epithets and derision than actually making a point.
My point about not needing a pardon is that Snowden didn't give information to the enemy - he told the world. According to the way the intelligence & military communities are portrayed in the released documents that means *us*. All of us, be it communist, capitalist or just plain don't give a fuck. I don't consider myself an enemy and I'm pretty sure you aren't as you've done me no harm. The real enemy is the intelligence & military community. Remove them - and their paranoia and lust for secrecy & big shiny toys that go boom - from the scene (and the religious zealots, etc, etc) and the world might be a slightly better place.
And I'm teetotal. What's your excuse?
What does he need a pardon for? He's done nothing to require one. What he needs is a big shiny medal - the sort that says "you done a good thing there, thank you" and a great big "anybody touches him is in a whole truckload of trouble" award.
True, but biology texts would be more interested in explaining the interactions with the human organism from various chemical means. Condoms don't quite have that kind of effect, being simply a barrier contraceptive.